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How long do the batteries last on your game camera?

Over the holidays I had a couple of gift cards and decided to buy a new game camera. I did not want to spend a fortune and alot of the camera's seem like crap. I have an old Wildgame camera that still works that uses C batteries and even in the warm weather only lasts about a month. I tried a stealth camera and returned it immediately as it would not work in cold weather and the batteries seem to die quick.

I picked up a Primos Ultra 40 for pretty cheap and I have been amazed with the battery life. I put it in my food plot in early January expecting it to last a month at most in the cold and double AA batteries. It is still showing 99 percent battery life going on 4 months an I have literally over 2000 pictures and very few pictures with no game on it. I am sure there may be cameras that take better pictures, but for the most part I am very impressed. I am very pleased with the battery life.

I have a couple Bushnell Trophy Cam HD's, I've ran them for 6months thru a variety of modes/ settings (including time lapse,high if flash and video clips) and got thousands of pics, approx. ~5000-6000 each. I also have a Cuddeback Capture with the incadesant flash, it only lasts about 3 months a 1000~2000 pics, but the pics are great quality.

Primos Truth Cam, put 4 brand new D batteries into it, it was out only a couple days maybe 5? and it had to be taken down because of timber cutting, picked it up this past weekend and had 10% battery left

Re: How long do the batteries last on your game camera?

I just picked up 5 WG Micro Red 5. Was going to use precharged rechargeable because they don't drain during downtime the way regular rechargeables do. But the former owner told me even the cheap discount alkaline AAs at 20 cents apiece would last 3 months easily, likely longer.

My Reconyx's will last a good 40,000 pictures in the summer, in the winter using the same type of batteries ( Energizer Ultimate Lithium) they only last maybe 5,000 pictures. The cold hammered hundreds of dollars of batteries for me this year.

Hi there Greg. In my Spypoint G4 and my Bushnell Trophy Cam the AA batteries will last 4 to 6 months using the photo option and about half that if I run the video. My Cuddeback Capture cameras use D batteries and they last about 2 to 3 months, but that is with them taking far fewer pictures since the trigger is not near as sensitive. I have found that cameras running AA batteries will last much longer than C or D batteries. Keep in mind I typically change my batteries out of my cameras before they completely run dead. When battery life gets under 25% or so I change them out.

My dad works at trailcampro.com and tests cameras for a living and you can call him and he can tell you what battery works best for the camera he recommends. Depending on weather you have a camera on a bait pile or a trail makes a big difference and he knows the answers.

His name is Charles Padgett and is the trail cam guru, he has been testing the new cams for this year for the last few months so he should be up to date.

We took 5 cams to the boundary waters a 2 yrs ago and one was a reconix and 4 were trophy cams and we put them on the little islands that we cleaned fish on and took pics of bald eagles and sea gulls coming in and fighting and stuff. He got lucky and one bald eagle came in fully spread with talons out for the landing and the reconix fired like clock work and got at least 3 awesome pics with its quick trigger speed and they were stinking awesome.

Hunting cams have so many cool apps and these pictures really made his yearly slide show even better.

Hi Padgett, I have used your dad's site quite abit for reviews. He does seem to give a nice fair review of the camera's and that can be a big help to all of use in making decisions. I know they put a big emphasis on battery life.

I had a truth cam 35 i think it took D batteries. Lasted from July and then in December still having 50 percent of battery left someone decided they wanted to steal my camera off my land. Trail camera thiefs suck!